[snip]
>I did this on my crufty beige box SuSE-9.X system, just out of
>curiosity. I get this:
>
>/home/sdb> glxinfo | grep -i direct
>direct rendering: No
>OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
>
>Ummmm..... so my question is: How does one *enable* hardware
>acceleration? Is there some boot-time switch in /etc/init.d or in
>.Xinitrc or whatever?
>
If it was only as simple as that. :-( I have found that it is
X server version specific (Xorg vs XFree86), video card driver specific
(commercial vs oss drivers), and maybe even GNU/Linux distribution
specific. Just do a search on "enable DRI" and you will find a plethora
of different answers.
I got luckly in that on both my older boxes, xubuntu configured
dri for me out-of-the-box. Most modern distributions do a fairly good
job of enabling DRI.
The other random test you can do to see if you are hardware
accelerated is to run glxgears and you should get fairly large fps.
-Ales
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